Mice Plague in Australia

[Torture]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

I’ve killed many mice at my place over the years. Haven’t had any survive after I got those little poison boxes. They’re about five inches long and four inches wide and you put little cubes in. The mice go in via the entrance holes and chew on the poison then go away to die. They’re one if the best things ever. I have several around my property -inside and out.

Those are unfortunately really good at killing predators like hawks, owls, cats, etc as well as they don't kill the mouse right away, it gets eaten by an owl, and now the owl is poisoned as well.

[Dion]

They would be a nightmare for me. I have a morbid fear of mice.

That would be Hell for me if it exists.

[MoneyGuy]

Most are indoors. I don’t want to think about where the mice go to die. We’ve never actually found a dead one.

[Iggy_12]

That is literally my hell right there. Absolute nightmare material

[GreenLantern2814]

Originally Posted by psyang

This video horrifies me. Where do you even start?

https://twitter.com/user/status/1391952548190248961

You start at the car, and end at the airport.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Dion

They would be a nightmare for me. I have a morbid fear of mice.

That would be Hell for me if it exists.

Afraid of mice? What are you, a man or a mouse?

[djsFlames]

Had to fend off a litter last fall that nestled indoors when the weather changed, neighbors had them in their basement and RV on their property as well.

Luckily the ####ers were dumb and took the baits fairly easily. One chewed through a water line cause it got stuck in a spot inside the bathroom wall and caused a basement leak. Think i killed about 15-16 before they were gone for good.

If I didn't like them before, I certainly hate them now. Little monsters..

Can't imagine the situation for those people. You'd need a house on stilts.

[Dion]

nm

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Afraid of mice? What are you, a man or a mouse?

I was working for Safeway back in the early 90's when the powers that be decided it would be a great idea to recycle all the day old bread. There would be crates in the backroom where all the day old bread was stored before being shipped to the warehose.

One evening I pulled out a skid of excess stock in milk crates. I drop the skid to the ground with the power dolly and out of the crates comes mice running off in every direction. A quick examination found droppings and unrine over everthing. It was decided to throw all the product into the trash compactor.

Skid was pulled into the back and milk crates and all were tossed into the compactor. I lift one crate and and 3 mice jump out and inside the front of my shirt. I ran screaming like girl trying to get these rodents off of me.

I've had nightmares about the whole sinerio ever since

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

Most are indoors. I don’t want to think about where the mice go to die. We’ve never actually found a dead one.

Most of the time, the poison just kills the mom and dad mice as well, leaving the pups to die and rot in the walls. It can cause quite a stench.

[Fuzz]

Man, I wish there was a video of that, Dion.

[transplant99]

This has happened down under before....years ago but i seem to remember it.



Not quite on the same level but this is also the time when the 17 year cycle of Cicadas come out in the South.

I lived smack in the middle of a forest at the ridge top of a mountain down there the last time they emerged. It was a ####ing nightmare for a couple weeks. Up to a million per acre emerge and we were in the middle of 100's of acres. There so many in some spots on the road, it was like driving on an oil slick in places.

But the worst was the nightime and constant droning they produce....it was so loud it was hard to sleep unless you just shut them out and treated them as white noise.

I was responsible for the swimming pool in our little condo association and would have to clear 100's of the little alien looking parasites that bloated up in the water overnight.

Things of nightmares as well..




https://news.yahoo.com/loud-month-su...191950289.html

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Owls are mostly harmless. Send them some owls.

I was thinking more hawks/raptors and stuff as clawed menaces in the sky. Australia is weird though, your owls could end up not being harmless if implemented.

Here in North America, crows/magpies barely do anything to us, in Australia, apparently they dive bomb and attack people on the regular.

[81MC]

Originally Posted by Dion

They would be a nightmare for me. I have a morbid fear of mice.

That would be Hell for me if it exists.

Room 101

[darockwilder]

#### I hate mice. I thought twice about even opening this thread. No way I was clicking on those Twitter videos.

[Nyah]

I have no idea this was a thing. Some of the videos on Twitter are freaking wild.

[speede5]

Originally Posted by Torture

Those are unfortunately really good at killing predators like hawks, owls, cats, etc as well as they don't kill the mouse right away, it gets eaten by an owl, and now the owl is poisoned as well.

That's an old wives tale. The amount of poison a mouse may have in their system is unlikely to be enough to harm a larger predator.

[CroFlames]

At least its not snakes.

[Torture]

Originally Posted by speede5

That's an old wives tale. The amount of poison a mouse may have in their system is unlikely to be enough to harm a larger predator.

Is it though?

Clinical assistant professor Maureen Murray of the Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine in central Massachusetts was doing a good job of keeping her emotions under wraps as she clicked through photos of her recent necropsies. But I was watching her eyes as well as her computer screen, and they revealed anguish. Like her colleagues here and at similar clinics around the country, Murray is a wildlife advocate as well as a scientist.

Each image was, in her word and my perception, “sadder” than the last. There was the great horned owl with a hematoma running the length of its left wing; the red-tailed hawk’s body cavity glistening with unclotted blood; sundry raptors with pools of blood under dissected skin; the redtail with a hematoma that had ballooned its left eye to 10 times normal size; and, “saddest of all,” the redtail with an egg. The well-developed blood vessels in her oviducts had ruptured, and she had slowly bled to death from the inside.

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/jan...nts-have-safer

Maureen Murray, V03, director of Tufts Wildlife Clinic and clinical associate professor at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, has been studying rodenticide exposure in birds of prey for over a decade. Exposure to rodenticides occurs when people use these chemicals to kill unwanted pests. Mice and rats, or possibly other animals, eat the poison, and then the birds eat the poisoned prey.

Murray has witnessed a steady increase in the number of birds of prey that come into Tufts Wildlife Clinic with rodenticides in their systems—some with fatal levels. But even Murray was taken aback by the results of her most recent study.

https://now.tufts.edu/articles/under...ons-birds-prey

"[There was] not a feather out of place, no sign of trauma. There's no other alternative other than poisoning and when those birds were tested, it was confirmed," Hope said.

He says birds like owls and hawks are affected by secondary poisoning. That's when a predator eats a mouse or rat that has eaten poisoned bait.

"It takes about 10 days for [the poison] to really affect the rat or the mouse. Oftentimes, they're lethargic. They're not just as fast as a healthy rat or mouse ... [and] those are usually the ones that owls will take," he said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...ison-1.4468165

[Pizza]

its times like these you need to think outside the box

round up every cat in every australian shelter and send them to these farms.
give them a week and round up the cats with laser pointers and empty cardboard boxes
visit the next farm. rinse and repeat